From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jun 27 3:19: 7 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.blezurs.lv (mail.blezurs.lv [159.148.42.242]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 65BB037B405 for ; Thu, 27 Jun 2002 03:19:02 -0700 (PDT) Received: from bkb.blezurs.lv (bkb.blezurs.lv [192.168.1.253]) by mail.blezurs.lv (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id g5RAF6R99447 for ; Thu, 27 Jun 2002 12:15:07 +0200 (EET) (envelope-from arvids@blezurs.lv) Received: from agnese ([192.168.1.13]) by bkb.blezurs.lv (8.11.3/8.11.3) with SMTP id g5RAIrf69310 for ; Thu, 27 Jun 2002 12:18:53 +0200 (EET) (envelope-from arvids@blezurs.lv) From: "arvids" To: Subject: Re: re: how to configure/unzip tar? Date: Thu, 27 Jun 2002 13:19:07 +0300 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-4" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2910.0) X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2314.1300 Importance: Normal Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Thank you but there still is a problem: I did tar -xvfz backup.tar.gz and it gave me following: "can't open z : Nu such file or directory" It seems that system doesn't recognize z as an option but as a filename All I could do was tar -xf backup.tar.gz but it stuffed the target folder with unusable files and folders. Thay had no size and were named using random characters like that yyyy,,:"[[[jksdgb@444% I also tried to unzip the files through X Window but it was not a good idea, I guess funky! To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message